The design community currently surely has a huge love for Flat Design. Ever heard of Microsoft’s Zune Music Player? Though the player was a flop amongst the masses, the design was truly inspirational. It was probably the first device with a Flat UI design. Microsoft changed their design philosophy after Zune and started focusing on minimalist design. With Windows 8 Microsoft brought in the famous “Metro UI” which is a huge example of Flat Design.

What is a Flat Design after all? Just as what the name suggests, the design is flat with no gradients, shadows, textures, etc. All the extra elements are removed from the design and only the utmost important ones are kept. Thus, Flat design is also often termed as minimalist UI design. No existence of any 3d element on the page. The idea is to keep the essence of the element without the extra details.

With the flat design trend, the main focus of the designers fall on the typography and the color selection. Many flat UIs have used multiple colors. The tone of the typography needs to match the overall design concept. Type should be pretty simplistic with proper gaps between the letters. Colors used in Flat designs are often on the brighter side. Many colors are repeatedly used like the blue, green, orange, purple for many flat UI designs.

In this post we are publishing various websites that are already using flat designs. A look at the websites easily brings out the main functionality without the details of various design elements. Be it buttons, icons, forms, etc., all are flat! Here we are publishing 25 Beautiful Flat Design Websites for your inspiration. Whether Flat Design trend is here to stay or it is just some fad which will pass by in some time, is something that could be debatable. But, designers need to move with the trend!

Layer Vault

Super Eight Studio

Prophets

Simone Marcarino

Zurb Foundation

Lowdi

Coder Wall

Naldz Graphics

FitBit

Sumall

Bob Galmarini

Coloured Lines

WerkPress

Stin Digital

Wistia

Acer

Theme Builder

Creative Shades

DesignModo

Nike

Pixel Stadium

Windows of New york

Dolox

Portraits

Palace

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